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This study was approved by the ethics committee of South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. After obtaining a written informed consent, 90 American Society of Anesthesia (ASA) I-II patients aged 30-50 years and scheduled for major abdominal cancer surgery were included in the
Drugs such as fentanyl, midazolam, and propofol are widely used in emergency departments for procedural sedation and analgesia because they have a rapid onset and short duration of action. Unfortunately, all of these agents may cause respiratory depression, particularly when combined with other
In recent years there has been particular interest in ketamine-propofol for sedation of patients who are candidates for short minimally invasive surgical procedures. In some centers in Canada and the U.S. is, in fact, the first choice of sedation in the ED. There are also publications of their
One-hundred-eighty ASA I-II patients aged 18-55 years scheduled for elective ambulatory general surgery with a duration >1 h under general anaesthesia were enrolled in this double-blinded placebo-controlled randomised study after obtaining of the approval of Institutional Ethical Committee of
3.2 Study Design/Type
1. Patient meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria is enrolled up to 24 hours after admission for a vasoocclusive episode.
2. Prior to onset of ketamine infusion, the following information is collected:
1. Demographic information (age, gender, SCD genotype, past history of
Bronchoscopy Stable, lung transplant recipients undergoing surveillance bronchoscopy will be enrolled. We will exclude subjects with new or persistent cough, hypoxemia, new radiographic infiltrates, or hemodynamic instability.
Before bronchoscopy, patients will receive diazepam while codeine and